Photoessay of Traditional woven dinnerware

Here are examples of three millet bread baskets from my part of the world (Rwanda and Kigezi). They come in different sizes, shapes and decorations. Please tell me about the baskets and other dinnerware you use in your part of the world for serving millet bread. What stories can you share about these revered containers of oburo (millet bread?)

Akeebo k’uburo (Rwanda)

Akeibo nari Ekiibo k’yoburo (Kigezi) Endiiro (Nkore)

Akeibo/Ekiibo/Endiiro (Kigezi-Nkore)

The Acholi people of Northern Uganda call millet bread Kwon Kal or Kwon Bel. They serve it in a small basket called Adita. I think this is an Adita. (I need confirmation by my Acholi brothers and sisters.)

Away from the practice of medicine and writing, I love to read books, to collect and listen to quality analogue sound recordings on vinyl LPs, and to photograph the world around me as a gift to my great-great-great grandchildren.

Away from the practice of medicine and writing, I love to read books, to collect and listen to quality analogue sound recordings on vinyl LPs, and to photograph the world around me as a gift to my great-great-great grandchildren.

Away from the practice of medicine and writing, I love to read books, to collect and listen to quality analogue sound recordings on vinyl LPs, and to photograph the world around me as a gift to my great-great-great grandchildren.